Open Source Legal Tech
In recent news this week, a former CEO of a large tech company is starting a nonprofit based around open source legal technology. The article said it best, referring to the legal industry as “an industry notoriously known as a slow tech adopter.”
John Tredennick is creating an online platform that will allow for legal professionals to collaborate and have access to free resources. It will also include “access-to-justice” software creating a platform for amateurs to get information to help their legal ventures.
He plans to streamline the tasks for lawyers that are often redundant, archaic, or a waste of professional time. It’s wonderful to see this kind of tech coming into a field that is way too slow for what it’s trying to accomplish.
My future mission as a lawyer is to create a more cost-effective alternative to traditional law. I would love to run a tech-based firm that doesn’t charge clients a criminal amount of money. My hope is that tech like this will help me and my partners to accomplish this, and perhaps I can even get involved in the forefront of this legal technology movement.